About “Diamonds”

“Diamonds” was released as the lead single from Rihanna’s seventh studio album, Unapologetic. It became her twelfth number-one in the US.

The song was written by Sia.

We’re sitting there trying to make records, and we finally just said, ‘Let’s just do something we like. Let’s make a hip-hop record with some really cool chords on it… It didn’t sound Rihanna at all. We were more thinking of making a record that sounds like Kanye. Let’s make a record with a dope beat. So we did. Then Sia heard the track and instantly gravitated towards it. We weren’t even thinking of putting a pop song on it, but she wrote this amazing song.“
––Benny Blanco (Producer)

I literally punched him in the arm. I thought Benny was playing a trick on me, [Rihanna] could’ve done it her own way, but I think she really genuinely liked the way it was.“
––Sia